*mind the environment*
denver shooting
*mind the environment*
Last edited by felafel; 08-05-2012 at 03:27 AM.
Yup, I posted a side story about it here: http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...al-Destination
Anyways, it boggles my mind to what compels people to commit such atrocious acts. There's little back story at his life atm, but I'm sure the answers will become clear with time. I wonder if he was abused all his life and couldn't take it anymore and just snapped or if he's just insane and completely evil. I can't really type him now based on the limited information available about him atm.
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” Randy Pausch
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There's a deeper trend here: first the zombie attacks, now this. (although I think it goes back a little farther). People's fantasies are getting away with them. Delusional individuals are just as dangerous today as career criminals. But the problem is our attitudes both towards our entertainment, and our society.
This will seem cynical and callous but, after years of observing how people react to these things, I've basically come to the conclusion that people love shit like this.
It allows the gun rights wackos to project their hero complex and rescue fantasies onto the scenario ("If I'd been there with a gun, we wouldn't be talking about no 12 victims..."); the jejune, pneumatic housewives to wring their hands about the glorification of violence in the media; the droves of disgruntled adolescent schizoids to vicariously vent some of their slowly percolating misanthropy; and finally, the Socionists to delve into a broken mind. (That last one's more tongue-in-cheek, lol.) Sure, there is some genuine horror and grief mixed in there but mostly this is just another titilating, salacious little morsel to satiate people's collectively repressed urges to lacerate the stultifying effects of order and predictability, and exercise our fondness for recreational outrage. An international pasttime, it's become. Twitter and Facebook right now are a circus of thinly veiled bloodlust. There's a true crime forum I found a while back full of bored would-be detectives who thrive on murders of this sort like dung beetles on... dung. The more tragic, the more heartbreaking, the better.
I'm not judging. It's just that I get the impression that no one really wants this sort of thing to go away. We need our bi-annual massacre. Our real-life horror show. Of course, none of this should be surprising. Species do not evolve all that fast. It was only a relatively short while ago that humans dedicated huge stadiums to watch organized bloodsport, or when people gathered for public hangings and floggings. Actual violent crime as gone down, according to most counts but whatever lead people to the gladiator theatres still exists in our psyches.
"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
This is fucked up, I heard he shot people up during a shooting scene. It's kind of messed up how people will target others at their most inane and weakest point.
Also what baby wrote is interesting and that sort of thing has passed my mind, how certain people will be sustained off the suffering of others for their enlightenment or mental stimulation.
I may have more to say later, but that's all for now.
Yup. That's the allure. It's a revenge thing. There's a certain karma to it. Sometimes the most hurtful thing can be the indifference of all the people around to your suffering. He transferred that onto others. And I'm not saying this is a very good outlet for such feelings or even something that can truly bring a person any kind of karmic peace to do, but that these cause-effect relationships happen on a psychic and abstract level, regardless of how they are rationalized. People that have to label him as evil or scapegoat his actions by stigmatizing a part of culture as the sole cause of his actions are idiots and will only perpetuate these things with their pathetic ignorance and undisciplined minds. And maybe that's all karma really is when people won't realize/accept that they are part of the cycle of harm.Originally Posted by HaveLucidDreamz
Likewise, I've been amused at the predictable rhetoric issuing from libtard blogs and conservatard radio shows inspired by this event, mostly concerning gun control and "the other side's" supposedly nefarious agenda. Even more amusing is that the commentariat I've encountered thus far have have been too preoccupied wringing political milk from this spree killing to pause and at least give lip service to the human loss involved. America, fuck yeah!
After hearing about the event I stopped to consider all the selfish political pundit snobs who would misuse this event to blame the other side for the problem, then proceeded to mentally punch the shit out of them.
Guy seems Ti and sx last like fuck
I don't. I actually like it when people get along. Violence belongs in fantasy. Hatred and sociopathy in real life is just draining and anybody that supports it is weird, like something always seems 'off' about them.This will seem cynical and callous but, after years of observing how people react to these things, I've basically come to the conclusion that people love shit like this.
I know it's easy to see that people like drama and fighting and being cruel and a lot of people are that way, for some reason or another, but there are still sweeties left. Our culture just needs to get over the 'its okay to be an asshole' thing because it really isn't. Well not this level of assholery that's pure destruction... but it starts with minor cruelty.
The dude's eyes are fucked up btw, like he enjoys trolling the baby Jesus and laughing about it.
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Guys, i think it's a futile exercise to try to type him. He's clearly mentally ill. You can't accurately type someone who has untreated mental illness as it's difficult to separate manifestations of his psychiatric condition from his type-related phenotype.
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You know I don't think its always that bad to analyze the events surrounding things like this. I've always been interested in the motives behind things like this at a guteral level, because it can be very confounding at first glance why someone would perform such a random act of violence. I've also been interested before at thinking at what the possible solution to preventing these things are -- you know delving into things like, maybe it was violent video games, or it wasn't, or maybe its gun control that's the problem. I don't really see a problem with that at first glance. I think the problem is, the political agendas certain people have start off as asking questions on how to prevent things like this, but quickly devolve into something else for pundits. Overtime it becomes less about thinking of actual realistic and rational solutions to societies problems with an empathetic viewpoint and more about appeasing their self-righteous grandiose image of "here's the best plan for America" and then capitalizing on every tragedy or mundane event to support their case and attack the opposition.
So I guess what I'm saying is I don't think its that bad to think about events like these in terms of politics or crime, I just think that there is a point were it becomes somewhat disingenuous and exploiting, things that may have had their genesis in actual concern for other people but quickly devolved into something different throughout the course of events.
boring.
Ye, let's shoot someone, me and you, labcoat.
you do have a point there.
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What baby said. Everyone elses post was stoopid. And so is typing him.
I guess i'm not the only one who thinks so... @felafel
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Nyah nyah
He reminds me superficially of my girlfriends SLI-Si brother, but looks extroverted...ILE-Ti might be right.
Oh and fwiw I also agree with baby's post. All hail our local buddha for actually having real common sense wisdom to share
But, for a certainty, back then,
We loved so many, yet hated so much,
We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...
Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
Whilst our laughter echoed,
Under cerulean skies...
The guy was probably just increasingly detached from reality. From what I've understood, he came from a long period of unemployment + academic research. Likely has been completely isolated from human contact for 4-5 years. It's not that surprising that he might consider such an act as having no consequences, since he might not have any human affective links anymore.
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
Still, lots of people are socially isolated and dont go out and do mass murders.
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So, what does this mean? I don't understand the point. Given that he is a mass murderer, ex post you try to find an explanation...
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
****** for example, I heard that wanker drank beer in cellar.
I was thinking the same thing about your post. You seem to provide social isolation as an explanation for his action. I dont buy it.
He might have been socially isolated and detached BECAUSE he has some mental illness (like depression perhaps) and not the other way around.
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I thought he looked like an INFp...
„Man can do what he wants but he cannot want what he wants.“
– Arthur Schopenhauer
He had no depression. As long you want to throw disorders around try codependent personality disorder.
My only EII cousin was there. He didn't die. I'm glad that theater is bigger than ours. Otherwise a dozen people could have been everybody.
OMG that hits really close to home Abbie!! I am glad your cousin is ok...
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I wish it wasn't so easy to just innocently go about buying weapons and explosives over the course of several months and stockpile it all in your apartment. I might be interested in knowing if one of my neighbors has enough explosives in his/her apt to blow up the entire building. I don't know. I think there should be a reporting system on this kind of stuff so law enforcement is aware that someone bought a shitload of lethal weapons in a short time period.
Last edited by marooned; 07-21-2012 at 10:34 PM.
You cannot buy explosives without a construction permit. He was not using explosives but propane and other things that can explode, but that are not sold as explosives.
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well he still bought several guns - i probably think that should be reported too. i guess he could just say it's for hunting and um his own protection. maybe it just wouldn't go anywhere as far as prevention.
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Open space - RUN
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I agree with this. It's not so much that this event provokes genuine concern and discourse about possibly causes/contributors. That is healthy and probably necessary to make any progress. It was more observing how people can so easily turn murder into a form of entertainment, like a real live episode of CSI, or opportunistically and instantly bring out their soapbox.
I need to find a way to start making money off my verbiage. Rich, fat Oprah > homeless, starving Buddha
"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
He's some sort of a thinker type.
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Dual type(as per tcaudilllg)
Enneagram 5 (wings either 4 or 6)?
I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE
Best description of functions:
http://socionicsstudy.blogspot.com/2...functions.html
No apologies necessary. My cousin is fine, though I heard he feels a little guilty for not being able to help more. I probably would too if I had that many black belts.
I am just glad I don't live in Aurora.
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